Bicentennial Story #57-Scalping at Hebron

Bicentennial Story #57-Scalping at Hebron

Account of Sitting Crow, a Hidatsa Indian, describing how to scalp someone.

7/18/1975

5/26/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

This recording cannot be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center. This recording may be freely used for education uses, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this recording file is permitted without written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center.

mp3

audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape

English

BS-057

Hebron, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

While the Hebron settlers were building Fort Sauerkraut in 1890, a band of friendly Hidatsa came and volunteered to help them fight the Sioux. One of the fort-builders asked Sitting Crow how Indians scalped people. Not being able to explain in words, he proceeded to demonstrate by motions, and drawing his knife, with a few, jumps and horrible grimaces suddenly seized George Raber by the hair and passed the butt of his knife around his scab with a dexterous movement of the hand. Raber, not expecting or understanding it, was so frightened that he nearly fainted away and upon recovering from his astonishment felt around his head to see if his scalp was still on, to the great amusement of the spectators.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 57, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

N.D.H, Vol. 39, p. 11

Sound recordings

1:14

128kbps

1970 1979

Bicentennial tape #2, Bicentennial stories 46-66